gardening books, and these will soon be
available to borrow through an on-line catalogue
Note, the Members Lounge and Boardroom are kept locked with access via a keypad. The pin number
for the keypad changes annually. The number will be sent to you along with your member’s card.
• Discounts when hiring the Studio or booking events at the Lodge. For new members, this discounted
rate is available after six months.
• Volunteering in the garden and during public events.
• Full voting
considered responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable development of the
region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the
Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s
re-examined the predictive flow model for the system using the
existing main pond operation range and maximum pumping capacity (to the NPDC
wastewater treatment plant). The secondary pond was deepened during 1999-2000 to
increase the storage capacity. The predictive model indicated a much reduced
likelihood of pond overflow of 3 occurrences in total over any 10 year period as a
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result of this increased pond capacity and higher diversion pumping rate than
the refinement of methods, to move closer to
achieving sustainable development of the region’s resources.
1.1.3 Evaluation of environmental and consent performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance
by the consent holder during the period under review, this report also assigns a
rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the
receiving
review, this report also assigns a rating as
to the Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving
environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative
performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to demonstrating consent
compliance in site operations and management including the timely provision of
information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data)
at Port Taranaki during the year. One of which
involved a tallow spill from the GrainCorp Liquid Terminals NZ Ltd (GrainCorp) site within Port Taranaki,
which led to discharges of tallow and untreated wastewater into the Port Taranaki Harbour. The Council are
proceeding with a prosecution over the incident.
During the year, Downer, Technix, NZOSL and Methanex obtained a high rating for environmental and high
rating for administrative performance and compliance with the resource consents. …
Waimoku) met
the national bathing guideline, and this is a lower rate of non-compliance than in the
previous two years. Of the 14% of samples that exceeded the guideline, 10% arose from just
two sites- the two New Plymouth urban sites. Bird life was mainly responsible for the
exceedances at these sites, where on occasions recreationalists have fed the birds.
Two sites recorded all single samples in either the ‘Alert’ or the ‘Action’ mode of the MfE,
2003 guidelines (Waimoku Stream at Oakura,
for odour – the
frequency, intensity, duration, offensiveness, and
location of the event. In terms of the intensity of
a dust event being deemed offensive or
objectionable, it can be noted that in situations
involving exposure by the general public, the
experience of the Council is that a deposition rate
of more than O.13 grams per square metre per
day can lead to justified complaints. For
suspended dust, an ambient concentration of
around 3 mg per cubic metre is the point at which
field of science for many people.
The programmes undertaken are extremely
wide-ranging and include national bird counts,
water quality measurement, pest free
programmes, wetland restoration, intertidal
diversity studies and lizard monitoring. I
expect schools to hear more about and have
greater involvement with citizen science in the
next few years.
Building developments are progressing at a
fast rate at Pukeiti with the official opening
expected in